scholarly journals Environmental and natural resource degradation in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: a wake-up call

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khalid Anser ◽  
Abdelmohsen A. Nassani ◽  
Khalid Zaman ◽  
Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Degradation

The Future of the Planetary Trust in a Kaleidoscopic World

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Edith Brown Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Shared Goal

Today, it is evident that we are part of a planetary trust. Conserving our planet represents a public good, global as well as local. The threats to future generations resulting from human activities make applying the normative framework of a planetary trust even more urgent than in the past decades. Initially, the planetary trust focused primarily on threats to the natural system of our human environment such as pollution and natural resource degradation, and on threats to cultural heritage. Now, we face a higher threat of nuclear war, cyber wars, and threats from gene drivers that can cause inheritable changes to genes, potential threats from other new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and possible pandemics. In this context, it is proposed that in the kaleidoscopic world, we must engage all the actors to cooperate with the shared goal of caring for and maintaining planet Earth in trust for present and future generations.

scholarly journals Assessment of Levels of Community Awareness to Effects of Forest Degradation and their Environmental Management Practices in Jimma Zone, South western Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Kaso Teha Nura ◽  
Fentaw Said Endris
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Fuel Wood ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Jimma Zone ◽  
Development Agents

This study aimed to assess the levels of community awareness to the environmental effects of growing use of forest product for peoples’ livelihood and their management practices in Jimma Zone. Thus, local farming communities, Development Agents (DA), Agriculture and Natural resource, Forest and Environmental Protection Officials & Experts are the participant of this study. The study employed descriptive survey research design and both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collections were employed. To assess community environmental awareness survey questionnaire questions (both open and close ended) were distributed for 240 sample respondents. An interview with10 Key informant interviews were also conducted with the head of natural resource management offices of selected woredas and six development agents (DA) in sample selected kebeles and four focus group discussions (FDG) consisted of 10 members were also employed to collect qualitative data.The findings show that all the respondents aware of forest and natural resource degradation about (87%) and (75.4%) were aware of clearing of forest to expand farmland for growing population and cutting trees for fuel wood, charcoal and other forest productsrespectively. Only very few of the respondents were indicate that lack of community awareness to sustainable use and management of forest resource (44.5%)and lack of clear understanding of forest laws and regulation among the community (40.4%)as a cause of deforestation. Therefore, the assessment of community awareness to forest resource degradation survey result shows that all of the farmers in the study area have been aware of natural resource and environmental degradation. Based on the findings of this study, it is recommended that there is a need of modifying educational/training programs for local communities considering the existing knowledge and practices in a particular area.

Natural resource degradation effects of poverty and population growth are largely policy-induced: the case of Colombia

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Heath ◽  
Hans Binswanger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Population Pressure ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACTThe sustainability of natural resource use is influenced by population pressure, but this exercises a much less critical impact than the overall policy framework. In Colombia, various agricultural and other policies whose effect is to constrain the poor's access to land encourage environmental degradation. A case is made in favour of the new land reform process that Colombia is launching.

scholarly journals Diverse Role of Women for Natural Resource Management in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Surabhi Singh ◽  
Sunita Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Wide Issue ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Over Exploitation

Natural resources are means to satisfy human wants which exist in natural environment and which are available without any type of human endeavour. The degradation of natural resources such as land, water, forest etc. may have an adverse impact on livelihood of rural people. The present review paper determines diverse roles of women for management of various natural resources in India. Vigorous participation of women in decisions and activities related to conservation and well-organized utilization of renewable and non-renewable natural resources is solution of this world wide issue i.e., natural resource degradation. Over exploitation and botched utilization of natural resources can be protected in India through involvement of women in policies and programs made for natural resource management. They will also serve as a treasure of indigenous information for conserving natural resources.

Agricultural Development and Environmental Protection: Some Key Issues of Potential Relevance to Pakistan (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (4I) ◽  
pp. 501-521
Author(s):  
Hartwig De Haen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Planning ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Policy And Planning

Pakistan has made noteworthy attempts to incorporate environmental concerns into its policy and planning framework. Environment legislation and the establishment of the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency now date back more than a decade. In 1988 it was also one of the first developing countries to begin designing a comprehensive national conservation strategy. Proposed investments and adjustments to policy arising from the strategy are incorporated in the Eighth Plan 1993-98; and continue to be debated in national fora [see Amir, Chaudhri and Nasir (1992) for example]. Such actions reflect the growing concerns on the wide range of environmental problems facing Pakistan, the result of a still rapidly growing population (more than 3 percent per annum) confronting widespread natural resource degradation. The main purpose of this paper, therefore, is not to underline the well known need to take account of the environment in agricultural planning and policy-making in Pakistan, but to raise some general issues regarding the complementarities and trade-offs between maintaining agricultural production growth on one hand and natural resource conservation on the other.

scholarly journals To fish or not to fish? Resource degradation and income diversification in Benin

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 669-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Stoop ◽  
Romain Houssa ◽  
Marijke Verpoorten
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Fish Stock ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Income Diversification ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
High Return ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe authors study the impact of natural resource degradation on income diversification in Beninese fishing communities. Using survey data and econometric analysis, they show that fishermen are more likely to diversify their income when the degradation of the fish stock is more severe. However, the level of income diversification that they find is surprisingly low and far from sufficient to relieve the stress on the lakes. The latter relates to low levels of formal education among fishermen and the unregulated use of highly productive, but damaging, fishing gear. These two factors result in a high return to fishing relative to non-fishing activities, even amid degradation.

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